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Pete Massiello featured in IT Jungle’s 2019 IBM i Predictions Article

Posted on January 23, 2019

With 2019 upon us, it’s natural for one to wonder what’s in store for IBM i in the upcoming year. According to iTech President, Pete Massiello, the outlook for IBM i is looking good for this year. How good? “2019…

Posted in: Blog, IBM i (iSeries, Systemi, AS400), IBM POWER Systems, News
Tagged with: 2019, IBM i, IBM i Roadmap, IBM Power Systems, IBM Power9, iNext, IT Jungle, Pete Massiello, POWER9, SSD

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Pete Massiello, Richie Palma, and Steve Pitcher of iTech Solutions Named IBM Champions for 2019

Posted on January 11, 2019

It’s a time to celebrate for the iTech Solutions team. Pete Massiello, Richie Palma, and Steve Pitcher have been selected as IBM Power Champions for 2019. An IBM Champion, according to the IBM Champion website, means to “demonstrate both expertise…

Posted in: Blog, IBM POWER Systems, iTech Announcements
Tagged with: IBM Champions, IBM i, IBM Power Systems, IBMChampion, IBMChampions, IBMi, P9, POWER9

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What Santa Wants for his IBM i

Posted on December 12, 2018

Just a few more days to shop, to work, and to wait for Christmas. I thought I would share a little story about how iTech Solutions helped Santa prepare for Christmas this year. As many of our readers remember, Santa…

Posted in: High Availability/Disaster Recovery, IBM i (iSeries, Systemi, AS400), IBM POWER Systems, Managed Services, Newsletter, Security
Tagged with: 7.3, Disaster Recovery, DR, HA, High availability, IBM i Future Roadmap, IBM Power Systems, IBMi, Managed Services, MSP, OS Upgrades, POWER9, PTF, Security, Websphere

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End of life for IBM POWER6 and POWER7

Posted on November 26, 2018

If you run IBM i on IBM Power Systems, this will hopefully come as a friendly reminder. IBM will be discontinuing hardware support on POWER6 machines at end of Q1 2019 and for POWER7 at end of Q3 2019. You…

Posted in: Blog, IBM POWER Systems, Newsletter
Tagged with: 8202-E4A, 8202-E4B, 8202-E4D, End of IBM i support, IBM Power Systems, IBM Power7, P6, P7, P9, POWER6, POWER9, Service Discontinuation

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The Value of Keeping Your IBM i Current

Posted on November 19, 2018

IBM i on IBM Power Servers is the best server platform in the universe. It is reliable, stable and provides all the tools needed to effectively operate and manage your mission-critical applications. Most of us on the platform fully agree. …

Posted in: IBM i (iSeries, Systemi, AS400), IBM POWER Systems, Newsletter
Tagged with: 7.3, Hardware Maintenance, IBM i, IBM Power Systems, Performance Increase, Power5, POWER9, Software Maintenance, SWMA

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IBM i Support Dates (August 2018)

Posted on August 28, 2018

Do you still have an old “System i, “iSeries” or “AS/400” in your shop? Do you know the date it’s going out of support? January 31st, 2019 you’ll see the POWER5 9405-520 and 9406-520 models go away. That means no…

Posted in: IBM i (iSeries, Systemi, AS400), IBM POWER Systems, Newsletter
Tagged with: End of Support, IBM, IBM Power Systems, Power5, POWER6, Power7, POWER9, Service Discontinuation

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Moving IBM i to POWER9

Posted on February 13, 2018

It’s always exciting when IBM announces new hardware and today is no exception! We have been hearing about the new POWER9 Chip for several months. In December IBM released the first set of LINUX machines powered by P9. Now the next set of servers on the POWER9 chip is announced – the Scale-out line. IBM i has been running POWER chips since the POWER5 introduction in 2004 and the roadmap below illustrates the history and future of this powerful technology. Welcome POWER9!

Posted in: Blog, IBM POWER Systems
Tagged with: IBM i, POWER9

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Pete Massiello featured in IT Jungle’s 2019 IBM i Predictions Article

Pete Massiello, Richie Palma, and Steve Pitcher of iTech Solutions Named IBM Champions for 2019

Moving IBM i to POWER9

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